Man, however, as soon as he opens the eyes of his understanding, perceives unnumbered relations; he applies what he has seen in one case to different cases; he generalizes and infolds very many ideas in a single idea.
The expression of infinite numbers is reduced to the simplicity of a single rule based upon a single idea; the relation of position with a tenfold value.
The merit of our actual system of numeration consists in including the expression of all numbers in a single idea, making the value of each figure ten times that to the right, and filling all intervals with zeros.
According to him, spirits understand by a number of ideas smaller in proportion to the superiority of their order; and so the diminution goes on even to God, who understands by means of a single idea which is his own essence.
Its aspect was sectional--its foundation a single idea--and its tendency, to merge political principles in a slavery contention.
It went to impair confidence between the North and the South, and to narrow down the basis of party organization to a single idea; and that idea not known to our ancestors as an element in political organizations.
He was a man with a single idea, and such men are hard to baulk in the long run.
His lifelong pursuit of a single idea, his restricted consciousness of one image, had made him morbid, lonely, introspective.
The little man who, when ordered by his physician to take a quart of medicine, informed him with a deprecatory whimper, that he did not hold but a pint, illustrates the capacity of many of those who are subjects of a single idea.
It is precisely thus with a man who occupies and feeds his mind with a single idea.
If we rise into larger fields, we shall find more notable demonstration of the starving effect of the entertainment of a single idea.
A sonnet is a lyric poem of fourteen lines which deals with a single idea or sentiment.
Any word that alone or with its modifiers calls to mind a single idea, is a term.
A compound subject that expresses a single idea takes a singular verb: [Bread and milk is wholesome food].
Thus we can easily understand how the very limited congestions which are necessary for the concentration of thought upon a single idea may be brought about.
The expression, "he is a man of one idea," enshrines in popular language the conclusion of psychologists that if a single idea is present in the mind it will surely work itself out.
After Easter, 1904, when the child was discharged from the hospital, she was haunted by a single idea--to get rid of the child.
In this case a single idea, like a single man, cries out in vain, i.
A single idea is sufficient in a hysterical subject, to produce the realization of what it represents.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "single idea" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
